Integration Architect

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Reports to: Director IT Data and Integration

Position Summary

This position is responsible for providing the highest quality Integration solutions and support for all integrations. This position will be a member of the IT Data Integration and BI team and report to the Director IT Data and Integration. FleetPride seeks an experienced IT professional who lives for best-in-class integration architecture and is ready for a rewarding career in a collaborative environment. This position is responsible for the architecture, administration and development of integration solutions for FleetPride on-premises and cloud solutions.

In addition, this person will be considered a (SME) Subject Matter Expert for variety IT integration and data solutions. This person will be highly technical and will provide a higher-level technical architecture and support for complex technical solutions implementation. This person will be an active member of the IT Data Integration and BI Improvement team. This person will generally be utilized as a project lead and provide additional oversight to lead the projects and guide the developers.

This person will be responsible for ensuring the adherence of professionalism and expansion of all activities done. This person will co-partner with the Director IT Data and Integration to provide oversight over Integration and BI onsite and Offshore team and help in tracking the project deliverables. As an architect, he/she will be responsible for training other team members on integration technologies and establishing the standard processes.

Essential Tasks

• Lead architecture design and support for integration solutions and an enterprise-wide integration and data solutions portfolio.
• Coordinate with systems experts on data and integration needs and issues that affect the applications and their availability.
• Turns guidance into pragmatic architecture via proof of concepts, architectural diagrams and process/data flows.
• Lead the projects from technical standpoint and Provide guidance and direction to integration development and technical designers
• Define integration development objectives by analyzing user requirements; envisioning system features and functionality.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with customers and third-party development vendors.
• Integration performance optimization and tuning best practices.
• Administer the integration and data platforms (such as Dell Boomi, EDI, SSIS etc)
• Monitor trends in technology; research, validate, and build recommendations to implement new technologies, frameworks, or methodologies.
• Ensure that uniform enterprise-wide integration design standards are maintained
• Collaborate with other stakeholders to ensure the architecture is aligned with business requirement
• Perform design and code reviews
• Develop and Support ETL and Web Service based data integrations using Dell Boomi/SQL
• Provide Support and maintenance for EDI Platforms (Gentran and other cloud-based EDI platforms).
• The individual will be responsible for requirements gathering, development, testing and accountable for production deployment and support efforts.
• Ensures that projects deliver not only on functionality, but also follow and enhance the overall company integration platform and adhere to the company's methodology and technical strategy.
• Support and maintain applications within the production environment, including working with end users and others within IT to troubleshoot and find the root cause of issues.
• Stays abreast of industry trends and best practices.
• Optimize Integration solutions to ensure that performance of the solutions is optimal
• Maintain technical documentation with all the technical details and proper visual diagrams (Flowcharts, Diagram and layouts) for ease of understanding.
• Creates clear and concise comments in code to aid understanding by other developers
• Analyzes production issues to determine problem source and recommend solutions
• Assists in code reviews and code deployments
• Adheres to FleetPride SDLC principles for software development
• Respond to and complete Help Desk Tickets in a timely and professional manner.
• Develop Unit test plans and perform unit testing
• Maintain the version control for all code as per the FleetPride Guidelines.
• Collaborate with business and project teams to understand requirements and business needs
• Fosters open communication within and between teams that span business and IT

Responsibilities

• Self-train and self-educate to better support the technology FLEETPRIDE uses to support operations locally and at the branches. Assist or train others on the systems and features.
• Makes pragmatic recommendations on system and process enhancements.
• Ensures configurations, system features, and system documentations are appropriately documented.
• Establish and maintain a thorough knowledge of the organization and technology standards.
• Responsible for communicating, promoting and adhering to IT standards.

General Attributes

• Must be detail oriented, organized, service oriented and responsible.
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
• Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Understanding the implication of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Able to motivate themselves and a team to work together in the most efficient manner.
• Able to perform effectively with supervision, either independently or as a team member.
• Comprehensive knowledge of supported applications.
• Able to maintain confidentiality of information and systems.
• Must be available and willing to work such weekends and holidays as we determine are necessary or desirable to meet business needs
• Will be required to carry a cell phone at all times and expected to respond to urgent calls in a timely manner. This may require remote or occasional on-site support.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills required.
• Must be detail oriented, organized, service oriented and responsible.
• Strong customer service and presentation skills.
• Able to execute on other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Reaching above shoulder heights, below the waist or lifting as required to file documents or store materials throughout the workday.
• Long periods of time spent sitting or standing while working with a computer.
• Occasional lifting of items up to 50 pounds (files, computer printouts on occasion)
• The ability to work through stressful situations with either a co-worker or a customer
• May require overtime, weekend work and overnight travel.
• Much of the work shift is spent viewing a computer monitor and using a keyboard while entering problem description details into a case management system.

Environmental/Atmospheric Conditions

The primary environment is characterized by ambient room temperatures, lighting and traditional office equipment found in a typical office environment.

Minimum Qualifications

Education

A Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, or Management Information Systems. Consideration will be given to an equivalent combination of related education and required work experience.

Professional Experience/Competencies

• 10+ year in developing and supporting Data Integration solutions
• 5+ years of experience in data integration design and development, especially the significant experience on Dell Boomi platform.
• Experience and knowledge of APIs, Web Services, SOA, ESB, ETL concepts and tools
• Experience designing and developing SOAP and REST based web service
• SQL language proficiency with at least one of the common database platforms such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and/or DB2 database management systems.
• Demonstrated experience using relational databases, writing complex queries in ANSI- SQL based products such as T-SQL and PL/SQL, and utilizing a firm understanding of the underlying data.
• Experience working with cloud/on-prem and hybrid cloud solutions
• Define version control procedures and assist in managing all environments and code releases on each.
• Studying data sources by interviewing users; defining, analyzing, and validating data objects; identifying the relationship among data objects
• Passionate to understand complex systems and develop a comprehensive integration strategy is essential
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences. Be able to work with non-technical audiences to collect and define requirements.
• Excellent analytical and problem determination skills with the ability to find and solve issues.
• Demonstrated experience writing unit test procedures and documenting test results to ensure software system requirements are met.
• Demonstrated experience using and supporting integration and communications technologies between applications, databases and technology platforms.
• Effective working with outside vendors and service providers to achieve business objectives and long-term partnerships.
• Manage business expectations, set realistic goals with stakeholders and deliver them
• Experience in Retail and Distribution industry is a plus

FLEETPRIDE is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, or genetic information.

FleetPride is the leader in the industry comprised of retail, service, distribution and wholesale divisions.